spent shabbos in passaic. What a beautiful shul and a really nice community. I was especially impressed by two things:
there were two bar mitzvah boys so they shared the laining. One read three and one read four. Maftir was lained by one bar mitzvah and the aliya went to the other bar mitzvah. I don’t know if anyone in my hometown would consider sharing a bar mitzvah kiddush, let alone split the laining. And my brother said they sometimes have more than two sharing. The second thing was that there is a guy there who has taken upon himself, in the zchus of a refuah to a young boy, to fix tzitzis. He approaches people in shul whose knots are coming loose and offers to redo their tzitzis. They drop them off at his house and he does them there. way cool.